The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
MARTHA GRAHAMSome men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
More Martha Graham Quotes
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My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
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Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
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Discipline is liberation.
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
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I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
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You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
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It’s what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
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